“Americans worry about 2020 being another 2000, but the real worry is another 1876,” with Erik Alexander (Made by History, Outlook Section, October 20, 2020) slavery, and the memory and culture of the mid-nineteenth century.Īs the director of the Richards Center, I oversee several important projects on Civil War-era America, including the Society of Civil War Historians biennial meeting, the flagship journal of the period The Journal of the Civil War Era, the annual Brose Lecture and Book Series, and several others. I teach courses on the Civil War era, political and constitutional history, the history of U.S. Supreme Court from the 1830s to the 1890s. My current book project, entitled The Politics of Judging, examines the political culture of the U.S. Civil War era with a focus on politics, slavery, and law. I am an associate professor at Penn State University and the Director of the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center.
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